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A Unique Life at Sea
"A Unique Life at Sea" is a riveting memoir that gathers rare adventures together. Peter Skog’s exhilarating and hair-raising memoir "A Unique Life at Sea" is about his work on the oceans. Raised in the Swedish port city of Malmö,...
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The First 7
In Laura Pohl’s absorbing "The First 7", the last seven teenagers on Earth, having escaped an alien invasion, rove the universe. When a signal from Earth reaches them, they return to find a small community of survivors. But Clover...
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A Man of Honor, or Horatio's Confessions
With its literary flourishes and exciting scenes, A Man of Honor addresses ethical questions in fascinating ways. In J. A. Nelson’s historical novel A Man of Honor, Hamlet’s friend Horatio tells an evocative, compelling story of his...
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Cassandra's Eye
An evocative novel set in 1969’s counterculture, Cassandra’s Eye focuses on the almost-grown daughter of intransigent bohemian parents. In Portland, Maine, Shanti is caught between her parents’ heedless lifestyle, her desire to...
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A Century of Votes for Women
In 2020, the Nineteenth Amendment turns 100, and Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder’s "A Century of Votes for Women" examines its history and effects in direct, accessible terms. Moving chronologically, the book first details the...
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Purposeful Evolution
"Purposeful Evolution" is an interesting, science-based examination of life on Earth. Two dominant paths that lead to plant and animal evolution receive scrutiny in Ron Deming’s "Purposeful Evolution". Taking a scientific approach, the...
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Little By Little
"Little By Little" is an inventive time travel story that captures the essence of disparate eras well. Dawn Davis’s "Little By Little" is an imaginative time travel tale that’s enlivened by realistic details. In 1929, in a shabby but...
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In the Land of the Blind
"In the Land of the Blind" is an intelligent novel focused on an idealistic psychoanalyst and his patients. In Robert Schulman’s contemporary novel "In the Land of the Blind", a struggling analyst gives glimpses behind the scenes of...